True crime stories & great mysteries

Mystery & True Crime Stories is a website about the most puzzling mysteries of the past, as well as controversial theories. Here you'll find the most puzzling crime mysteries, the greatest mysteries of history, some of the interesting controversial theories and unexplained phenomena. Of course, some of them might be hoaxes, some of them might have a trivial explanation, but it is always a fun to stumble upon a puzzle or mystery that still needs to be solved.


True crime stories

Rita Gorgonova case mystery

Rita Gorgonova case

The most famous murder case in pre-World War 2 Poland - a young girl was brutally murdered in her sleep. In the secluded house where it happened, only few people were present and Rita Gorgonova...


Monster of Florence mystery

Monster of Florence

One of the most famous serial killer cases in Europe - the unknown assailant attacked the couples in parked cars around the beautiful city of Florence. Between 1968 and 1985 16 people were killed...


Death of Isidor Fink mystery

Death of Isidor Fink

Isidor Fink was one of the many immigrants from Poland that came to America at the beginning of the 20th century, searching for a better life. His dreams, just like many others, were never fulfilled...


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Great mysteries

The Somerton Man mystery

The Somerton Man

In 1948, a corpse of an unidentified man was found on Somerton beach in Adelaide, Australia. The contents of the hidden pocket are puzzling the investigators to this day.


Bigfoot sightings mystery

Bigfoot sightings

Bigfoot is an ape-like creature that supposedly lives in the forests in different regions of the United States. The story of Bigfoot is in many points similar to the yeti.


Oak Island mystery mystery

Oak Island mystery

A small island on the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada, became famous after the discovery of a strange well-like hole in the ground with a bottom made of wood. At least that what it looked...


SS Ourang Medan mystery

SS Ourang Medan

Two American ships while crossing the Strait of Malacca, near Indonesia, received a distress call from SS Ourang Medan. The rescue party that boarded the ship found all the crew dead...





Controversial theories

Glenn Miller disappearance mystery

Glenn Miller disappearance

Glenn Miller was one of the most recognizable band leaders in the swing era, his music is still admired today. At the peak of his career, he decided to join the World War 2 effort and...


JFK assassination mystery

JFK assassination

American president John Fitzgerald Kennedy was shot while visiting Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. The official version is that he was shot by a single, obviously insane, shooter...


Smolensk air crash mystery

Smolensk air crash

During a trip to annual ceremonies marking the anniversary of the Katyn Massacre (when during the World War II over 20,000 Polish officers, previously kept captive, were killed by NKVD...


Korean Air Lines Flight 007 mystery

Korean Air Lines Flight 007

On September 1, 1983 Boeing 747 suddenly flew into Soviet Union airspace over Kamtchatka Peninsula. It was Korean Air Lines Flight 007 and soon Soviet fighters were sent to intercept the intruder...



Unexplained phenomena

Dyatlov Pass incident mystery

Dyatlov Pass incident

Dyatlov Pass incident involves the mysterious deaths of 9 tourists in the northern Ural Mountains on the night of February 2, 1959. The incident happened at night and there were no...


Beast of Gevaudan mystery

Beast of Gevaudan

Wolf-like creature (or creatures) that terrorized the French province of Gevaudan in the 18th century. Over 100 people were killed by the Beast of Gevaudan, but still, we have no idea...


Ghost stories mystery

Ghost stories

Ghost stories are part of human culture - even in the Dark Ages, our predecessors believed that we’re not actually dying when our body dies. The spirit, the soul or some other form...


High Rock event mystery

High Rock event

In June 1966, four boys went to the top of High Rock (Wysoki Kamien) in Poland, where they wanted to see if the rumours of this place being haunted were truth. What happened to them...



Crime and mystery movies

Gothika 2003 mystery movie

Gothika 2003

After mysterious event on the road psychiatrist wakes up in her own institution locked up as a patient suspected for murdering her husband.


Four 2011 mystery movie

Four 2011

Husband, who suspects his wife is cheating on him, hires a detective to help him solve the problem, but gets more than he was bargained for.


The Tall Man 2012 mystery movie

The Tall Man 2012

Cold Rock is a small town, where the legend of the Tall Man, who kidnaps the children, is still alive.


Fear of Water 2011 mystery movie

Fear of Water 2011

Small town policeman gets his first ever murder case - the 18-year-old daughter of the mayor has been raped and killed.



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